The Simple Interactive Models for better air quality (SIM‐air) program is a family of open‐source analytical tools to help manage air quality in a city. We accomplish that by
- establishing baseline emissions inventory
- conducting dispersion modeling using local meteorological conditions
- assessing health impacts of air pollution, and finally
- prioritizing possible interventions ranging from technical, economical, policy, to institutional, covering all prevalent sources in the city.
These are the minimum steps (click on the schematic to enlarge view) required for building an effective air quality management, so that an informed action plan can be charted by the decision makers.
Each of these steps involve a thesis of work, require a lot of information and proficiency, but not an impossible task, if efforts are put in place to do at least the minimum to start. The SIM-air tools are designed as plug‐n‐play modules to assist any city in putting together the minimum efforts in pulling the necessary information together from various source sectors and provide a platform to connect each of the steps. The document below, as part of the SIM-comic book series, is our effort to explain these important steps in air quality management in a graphic form.
Click on the images to enlarge page view or download the series as a PDF document.
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